Riddle: What has roots as nobody sees,

Is taller than trees,

Up, up it goes
And yet never grows?
Answer: A mountain.
Riddle: Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.
Answer: Teeth in your mouth.
Riddle: Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
Answer: The wind.
Riddle: An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face,
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."
Answer: Sun on a field of daisies.
Riddle: It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Answer: Darkness.
Riddle: A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
Answer: An egg.
Riddle: Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail, never clinking.
Answer: A fish.
Riddle: No-legs lay on one-leg,
Two-legs sat near on three-legs,
four legs got some.
Answer: Fish on a little table, man at table sitting on a stool,
the cat ate the bones.
Riddle: This thing all things devours:
Birds, trees, beasts, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
Answer: Time.
Riddle: My step is slow / the snow's my breath
I give the ground / a grinding death
My marching / makes an end of me
Slain by sun / or drowned in sea.
Answer: A glacier.

500 at the beginning, 500 at the end,

5 in the middle is seen,
The first of all letters, the first of all figures
Take up their stations between,
String them all together, and you will see
The name of an ancient king.